<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">The 2nd ACM Conference on Universal
Usability is seeking extended abstracts on late breaking research in Universal
Usability. We are particularly looking for papers from the social
science, economics, communications and sociology community in order to
build bridges between researchers in these disciplines and interface designers.
We are also seeking applicants for the CUU 2003 Doctoral Consortium.
The conference will be held in downtown Vancouver, Canada from November
10 –11, 2003. See </font><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>http://sigchi.org/cuu2003/</u></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
for conference details. </font><font size=3 color=#333333 face="Times New Roman">Special
rates for early conference registration are available until October 13,
2003.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Doctoral Consortium</b></font>
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<br><font size=3 color=#333333 face="Times New Roman">The CUU 2003 Doctoral
Consortium provides an ideal opportunity for doctoral students to explore
their research interests in an interdisciplinary workshop, under the guidance
of a panel of distinguished research faculty. The Consortium will
be held on Sunday November 9, 2004. Ten (10) students will be invited to
attend and discuss each student's work in turn. Student participants will
have a poster of their work exhibited at the main conference. Students
will receive complimentary conference registration, and reimbursement of
travel, accommodation and food. For application details, see the
conference website at </font><font size=3 color=#2f2f2f face="Times New Roman">http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/cuu2003/studentinfo.htm</font><font size=3 color=#333333 face="Times New Roman">.
The deadline for submission is Monday September 22, 2003, 5:00 p.m. (1700)
Pacific Standard Time.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><b>Abstracts on Universal Usability</b></font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">The CUU conference is focused on
understanding and guiding those elements of human-computer interface design
that affect the ability of a universal collection of people to effectively
use and gain benefit from computer applications. Thus, the conference
accepts papers in universal accessibility such as interface designs that
support screen readers for the blind, but it is also keenly interested
in the social nature of accessibility. For example, CUU would like
to attract research from those individuals working on the digital divide,
in particular, details on the ways in which different socio-economic groups
find it difficult to have access to computers and to the Internet. Computers
are currently designed for the western knowledge worker with an assumption
of infrastructures that support complex exchanges and a robust power supply.
A cultural and cost-based redesign has the potential of bridging the digital
divide. Thus, research on the nature, extent and characteristics
of this gap are solicited. The conference is also interested in research
on how different groups respond affectively to various interfaces and how
specific applications leave users disturbed about potential invasions of
privacy or control – enough so that usage is avoided or limited. A
key belief in hosting this conference is that software and computers are
cultural objects that have embodied in their design a set of features that
clearly state “who” the software and computers are designed for. The
focus of the conference is thus, to develop an understanding of how to
create these cultural objects so that they speak to a universal audience.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Suggested topics for universal
usability abstracts include the following:</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">1. Digital
divide issues in Africa, Indonesia, Poor America, etc.</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">2. Affective
or Emotional Computing </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">3. Designing
interfaces for multiple languages and cultures</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">4. Trust
issues in networked applications</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">5. Computer
training for the computer illiterate</font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">6. Gender
differences in responses to computerization, e.g., the automobile</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Prepare a two-page extended abstract
of your research in the ACM Conference Publications Format ( </font><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>http://www.acm.org/sigs/pubs/proceed/template.html</u></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
), including: title, author information, abstract, keywords, research summary,
and references. </font>
<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">E-mail this abstract in PDF format
to </font><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><u>cuu2003-lbr@universalusability.org</u></font><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">
by the deadline of Monday, September 22, 2003, 5:00 pm (1700) Pacific Standard
Time (PST).</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">Accepted abstracts will be available
as part of the Proceedings on the conference website. They will not
be published in the print Proceedings.</font>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">At least one author from each accepted
abstracts will be required to present the paper at the conference in November.
Presenting authors must register for the conference.</font>
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<br><font size=3 face="Times New Roman">This call for extended abstracts
is also available on the CUU 2003 web site at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/sigchi/cuu2003/call.htm#Abstracts</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Shari Trewin</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">CUU2003 Publicity Chair<br>
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